Labels
Labels was developed with writer Joe Sellman-Leava and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, where it won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award, the Holden Street Theatres Award and was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award. The show toured to Adelaide and Perth Fringe, where it subsequently won the Best Theatre Award (Week 2) and The Peace Foundation Award. We have since been to Singapore and North Carolina, as well as extensively toured the UK – rural venues, schools and universities.
“Terrific and really thoughtful”
Photo by Ben Borley
“Director Katharina Reinthaller helms a very clever, well constructed show, as Sellman-Leava takes us into his confidence and we are very happy to stay there and learn something.”
Drawing on autobiographical experiences of mixed heritage and racism, Labels examines our use of words within personal prejudices. Amidst the statistics and soundbites that surround the immigration debate, this show offers an honest human story about multicultural Britain.
Joe Sellman-Leava's comedy, poetry and storytelling charts a childhood in 90's rural England, shifting political landscapes and global refugee crisis.
Photo by Ben Borley
Photo by Ben Borley
“...a gentle firestorm of an interactive and political show which addresses the labels we hurl at each other and ourselves. Director Katharina Reinthaller has gotten the most of this production.”